Midwives 'overstretched' due to birth rate

Midwives are regularly overstretched due to a rise in England's birth rate, according to the Conservative Party.

The current administration's failure to predict the increase in births has resulted in a deficit in midwives available to deliver all the babies, it claimed.

Figures from the Conservatives indicate that 40,000 more babies were born in 2006 than were expected by the government. Meanwhile, the number of midwives has been decreasing during the last decade, it said.

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